Next Grant Cycle will open on February 2016
The Niwano Peace Foundation calls organizations around the globe to apply for research and activities that foster peace. The Foundation accepts proposals under its two grant cycle announced every year on two different categories – Social activities based on a religious spirit, and Grass-roots activities deployed in a local community. The Foundation promotes interreligious understanding and cooperation. It also strives to strengthen cooperation among people actively making continuing efforts, in a religious spirit, to achieve a peaceful society.
Grant applications will be received twice in a year, and recipients will be determined by the screening committee at the end of June and the end of September.
Grant Size
A total of 10 million yen are allotted for both grant cycle in a particular year. The number of successful applicants will be decided in accord with the merits of the applications. The maximum amount for Activity Grants 1,000,000 yen.
Supported activities
- Religious cooperation
- Societal role of religion
- Religious conflict and its reconciliation
- Progress in religion and technology
- Religion and medicine
- Dedicated social activities undertaken in a religious spirit
Categories
Groups and researchers working on research on the child and education are supported by the grant opportunity. Grant is awarded in following two categories:
- Social activities based on a religious spirit: Activities for individual and community welfare and peace, both physical and spiritual, based on a religious spirit that emerges from reverence for God, Buddha, or other universal spiritual reality. In particular, peace-making activities related to education, volunteer work, development cooperation, environmental protection, human rights or social problems of an aging society done in a spirit of religious tolerance which transcends religious boundaries.
- Grass-roots activities deployed in a local community: Activities to vitalize local communities through interdisciplinary workshops and meetings with particular emphasis on collaboration by groups and individuals from diverse organizations and religious groups. It is expected that local communities will come up with some new values with an independent mind.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicant can be an individual or an organization.
- Nationality is not a criterion for eligibility.
- Any group which has been in continuous existence for a reasonable length of time is eligible to apply, whether or not it is legally incorporated.
Application Procedure
- Write to the Niwano Peace Foundation for an application form. Include name, address, occupation (name of organization/institute, etc.), telephone and fax numbers, and E-mail address (if you have one).
- Return the completed application form in hard copy by mail to the Foundation only after making sure that all details have been filled in appropriately. Do not include any additional sheets of papers not specifically requested.
- Applications by e-mail, fax or delivered in person will not be accepted.
For more information, please visit Niwano Call 2016.
